On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:59:25PM +0800, Aaron Lewis wrote:
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> Hi,
> 	I'm wondering what is the fifth entry of "long format" with ls -ld ,
> which i've never cared much about.
> 
> 	ls -ld /usr/bin
> 	drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 6656 Nov 3 02:21 /usr/bin
> 
> 	What does 6656 implies here ?

That's the size needed to store the directory node.

Andreas